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Assessment of Water Availability and Streamflow Characteristics in the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks (GCPO) Landscape Conservation Cooperative for Current and Future Climatic and Landscape Conditions
The objective of this research is to provide an automated methodology and data products to the GCPO LCC partners by (1) developing a multi-model synthesis to simulate streamflow using a monthly water balance model and daily time step hydrologic models (physical process-based and statistical) for all watersheds of the GCPO LCC geographic region and (2) providing products from these models (flow...
Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) - Southeast Region Water Quality
The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) began in 2000 with the goal of determining the status and trends of amphibian populations throughout the U.S. The program was designed to provide information useful in determining causes of declines or other changes in population distributions. Personnel in the South Atlantic Water Science Center are...
Flood Frequency Information
Reliable estimates of the magnitude and frequency of floods are essential for such things as the design of transportation and water-conveyance structures, flood insurance studies, and flood-plain management. Flood-frequency estimates are particularly important in densely populated urban areas. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is using a multistate approach to update methods for determining...
Ft. Gordon, Georgia, Stormwater Assessment
Fort Gordon is a U.S. Department of the Army facility located in east-central Georgia, approximately 10 miles west of Augusta, Georgia). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) South Atlantic Water Science Center is working cooperatively with the U.S. Department of the Army Environmental and Natural Resources Management Office of the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon to assess the quality of...
Groundwater Monitoring Program for the Brunswick-Glynn County Area, Georgia
In the Brunswick, Georgia area, saltwater has contaminated the Upper Floridan aquifer for nearly 50 years. Saltwater contamination has constrained further development of the Upper Floridan aquifer in the Brunswick area, which has stimulated interest in the development of alternative sources of water supply, primarily from the shallower surficial and Brunswick aquifer systems.
USGS is...
Geohydrology and Effects of Climate and Pumpage Change on Water Resources of the Aucilla–Suwannee–Ochlockonee River Basin, South-Central Georgia and Adjacent Areas of Florida, Progress and Significant Results, 2006—2007
Episodic droughts and increased pumpage since the mid-1970s have caused unprecedented ground-water level decline in the Upper Floridan aquifer in much of the roughly 8,000 square-mile Aucilla-Suwannee-Ochlockonee (ASO) River Basin.
To address concerns about water availability, USGS worked with Georgia Environmental Protection Division to improve understanding of the hydrogeologic...
Peachtree Creek WaterWatch - Atlanta, GA
Peachtree Creek WaterWatch, Atlanta, GA
Peachtree Creek is a major tributary to the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, GA. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been monitoring stream stage and streamflow at or near the Northside Drive gage location since 1958. The Peachtree Creek watershed occupies a large portion of the northeast metro Atlanta area and collects...
Lower Tennessee River (LTEN) Basin Study
Welcome....the Lower Tennessee River Basin in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Mississippi is one of the 59 study units that are part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program.The long-term goals of this program are to describe the status and trends in the quality of a large, representative part of the Nation's surface- and ground-water...
Groundwater Monitoring - Albany-Dougherty County Area, Georgia
Groundwater Monitoring Program for the Albany-Dougherty County Area, Georgia
South Atlantic Water Science Center
Long-term heavy pumping from the Claiborne, Clayton, and Upper Cretaceous aquifers, which underlie the Upper Floridan aquifer, has resulted in significant water-level declines in these deep aquifers in the Albany, Georgia area.
These declines...
Small Watershed Studies at the Panola Mountain Research Watershed, Georgia
The Panola Mountain Research Watershed (PMRW) is a 41-hectare forested watershed in the southern Piedmont physiographic province near Atlanta, Georgia. The watershed contains a naturally regenerated second-growth forest on abandoned agricultural land, typical of the Piedmont. Research at PMRW is focused on how streamflow is generated, and in particular, on how water and solutes move from...
Directions to South Atlantic Water Science Center offices
The South Atlantic Water Science Centers has science and field offices in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
HDgov: Multi-agency Website for Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
HDgov is an interactive and mobile-responsive online portal to interagency, academic, and non-government resources focused on the human dimensions of natural resource management. The web portal provides easy access to tools, publications, data, and methods that help ensure that the people side of natural resources is considered throughout the entire natural resource management process. The...
TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: Schools in GA & SC as of 04/23/2020
TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: Schools in GA & SC as of 04/23/2020
Live webcam video at Peachtree Creek at Atlanta (02336300)
The USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center has installed a live webcam video at Peachtree Creek at Atlanta (02336300).
Lake Meredith's Return
The Lake Meredith National Recreation Area takes its name from the eponymous water body it encircles. It was declared a National Recreation Area on Nov. 28, 1990, and sometimes sees more than a million visitors a year from nearby Amarillo and beyond.
The 10,000-acre reservoir is the largest lake in the Texas Panhandle and the primary draw for those visitors, but
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TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: City/Town Halls in GA & SC 03/23/2020
TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: City/Town Halls in GA & SC 03/23/2020
Groundwater levels affect if Radium Springs, GA flows or is dry.
Radium Spring, Radium Springs Gardens & Historic Site, Dougherty County, Georgia
Radium Springs was once reported to be the largest spring in Georgia flowing 70,000 gallons per minute. As, this "before" picture shows, it still flows when Floridan Aquifer water levels are high enough.
In the summer of 2012 when south Georgia was
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TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: Schools in GA & SC as of 03/23/2020
TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: Schools in GA & SC as of 03/23/2020
TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: City/Town Halls in GA & SC 04/02/2020
TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: City/Town Halls in GA & SC 04/02/2020
Georgia's groundwater levels showed a general decline between 2010 and 2011 in response to low rainfall and increased pumping, according to a recent USGS publication.
Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise to Impact When Water is Available
ATLANTA – A powerful new flood preparedness tool that will help emergency managers protect lives and property in the flood-prone Sweetwater Creek area was unveiled in a ceremony today on the banks of the creek at Austell's Legion Regional Park.
Using a geology-based assessment method, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean undiscovered natural gas resource of 3.9 trillion cubic feet and a mean undiscovered natural gas liquids resource of 135 million barrels in continuous accumulations within five East Coast Mesozoic basins, according to a new USGS report.
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- State of the art water-quality monitoring equipment recently installed on wells in Tybee Island, Ga., is helping protect the area’s principal water supply from saltwater contamination.
Streamflow and groundwater conditions in southwestern Georgia and adjacent parts of Florida and Alabama continued to worsen during July. Waterways in many of the regions rivers are setting new record lows with gauges on the Flint, Suwannee, Ochlocknee, Alapaha, and Apalachicola rivers recording the lowest water levels in their history due to lower than normal rainfall.
Waterways in south Georgia's rivers are setting new record lows with gauges on the Flint, Suwannee, Ochlocknee, Alapaha and Altamaha rivers recording the lowest water levels in their history due to lower than normal rainfall.
Chattahoochee River Stakeholders are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the BacteriALERT Monitoring Program. Scientists taking weekly water samples are a common sight within the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (CRNRA).
Approximately 13 million metric tons of rare earth elements (REE) exist within known deposits in the United States, according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of these elements by the U.S. Geological Survey.
A new online and interactive flood preparedness tool is now available for the Flint River. Scientists from the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Weather Service (NWS) developed the new Flood Inundation Map to improve flood warnings and emergency management along the Flint River in Albany, Ga.
The epic flooding that hit the Atlanta area in September was so extremely rare that, six weeks later this event has defied attempts to describe it. Scientists have reviewed the numbers and they are stunning.
The flooding around Atlanta this week is one for the record books. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the rivers and streams had magnitudes so great that the odds of it happening were less than 0.2 percent in any given year. In other words, there was less than a 1 in 500 chance that parts of Cobb and Douglas counties were going to be hit with such an event.
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South Atlantic Water Science Center - Norcross, GA Office
Phone: (678) 924-6700
Fax: (678) 924-6710
South Atlantic Water Science Center - Tifton, GA Field Office
Phone: 229-382-6353
South Atlantic Water Science Center - Savannah, GA Field Office
Phone: (843) 784-5005